Introduction to Probability (Week 4)

Topics

• Sets, samples, and events
• Definition of probability
• Basic properties of probabilities
• Conditional and joint probabilities
• Frequentist v Bayesian interpretations of probability
• Random variable definition
• Discrete v continuous random variables
• Probability mass functions (PMFs)
• Bernoulli and Binomial distributions

Homework

• Sampling, P-values, and PMFs in RevBayes (Jupyter notebook)